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Revision 1.117 by root, Mon Dec 12 19:43:41 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.265 by root, Sun Oct 7 04:00:31 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: localise SIG{__DIE__} and/or __WARN__
4TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
5TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
6 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
7 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
8
9 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
10 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
11 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
12 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
13 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
14 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
15 speeds up context switching a bit.
16 - further tune default stack sizes.
17 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
18
194.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
20 - added Coro::throw method.
21 - minor code cleanups.
22
234.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
24 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
25 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
26 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
27 or use tracing).
28 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
29 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
30 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
31
324.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
33 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
34 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
35
364.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
37 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
38 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
39 debugging, tracing and much more.
40 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
41 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
42 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
43 flags.
44 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
45 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
46 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
47 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
48 - added Coro::killall.
49 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
50 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
51 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
52 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
53 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
54 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
55 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
56 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
57 - many minor tweaks.
58
593.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
60 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
61
623.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
63 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
64 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
65
663.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
67 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
68 pst's sometimes.
69 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
70 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
71 be threadsafe...).
72 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
73 but stateful semantics.
74 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
75 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
76
773.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
78 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
79 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
80 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
81 (EXPERIMENTAL).
82 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
83 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
84 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
85 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
86
873.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
88 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
89 it by default.
90 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
91 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
92 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
93 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
94 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
95 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
96 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
97 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
98 performance.
99
1003.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
101 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
102 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
103
1043.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
105 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
106 them without asking.
107
1083.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
109 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
110 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
111 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
112 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
113 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
114 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
115
1163.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
117 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
118 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
119 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
120 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
121 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
122 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
123 obsolete platforms.
124
1253.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
126 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
127 but was rather flaky in practise.
128 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
129 it was reused.
130 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
131 in cede_notself.
132
1333.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
134 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
135 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
136 documented and - hopefully - improved.
137 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
138 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
139 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
140 that could errronously trigger.
141 - fix various large and small memleaks.
142 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
143 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
144 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
145 - added Coro::guard function.
146 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
147 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
148 and 128k coros with async_pool).
149 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
150
1513.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
152 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
153 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
154 - simplify configuration for users.
155 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
156 their coro replacements.
157
1583.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
159 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
160 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
161 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
162 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
163 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
164 - save/restore tainted status.
165 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
166
1673.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
168 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
169 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
170 - give a better error message on deadlock.
171 - document Coro::nready.
172 - enhanced testsuite.
173
1743.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
175 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
176
1773.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
178 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
179 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
180 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
181 pool (size currently hardcoded).
182 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
183 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
184 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
185 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
186 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
187 check for changed watchers.
188 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
189 per event.
190 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
191 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
192 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
193 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
194 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
195 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
196 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
197 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
198 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
199 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
200 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
201 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
202 - updated to newest libcoro.
203 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
204 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
205 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
206 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
207 if somebody asks for it :)
208 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
209 spuriously without the event having happened.
210
2112.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
212 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
213 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
214 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
215 make LWP non-blocking.
216 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
217 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
218 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
219 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
220 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
221 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
222 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
223 by LWP(!!).
224 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
225 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
226 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
227 did already.
228
2292.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
230 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
231 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
232 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
233 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
234 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
235 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
236 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
237 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
238
2392.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
240 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
241
2421.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
243
2441.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
245 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
246 mark & sweep gc run.
247 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
248
2491.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
250 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
251 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
252
2531.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
3 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet 254 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
4 unseen problems with regex matches being attributes to the 255 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
5 wrong package. 256 wrong package.
257 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
258 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
259 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
260 normally uses.
261 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
6 262
71.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005 2631.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
8 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select. 264 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
9 265
101.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005 2661.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005

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